The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto - Softcover
The author spent a year in Japan in search of contemplation. Instead he found a land of contradictions, where the monks spent their evenings watching game shows. It was through his relationship with Sachiko, a Japanese lady who combined the east with the west, that he found his own vision of Japan.
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"[Iyer] is a sharp-eyed and thoughtful observer, and he is successful in evoking the life of Kyoto's malls, temples, and back streets, moonlit nights on the water, and the vulgarity of the Westernized nightclub and amusement quarter." -- New Yorker "Pico Iyers remarkable talent is enough justification for going anywhere in the world he fancies." -- Washington Post Book World
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Pico Iyer has written nonfiction books on globalism, Japan, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and forgotten places, and novels on Revolutionary Cuba and Islamic mysticism. He regularly writes about literature for The New York Review of Books; about travel for the Financial Times; and about global culture and the news for Time, The New York Times, and magazines around the world.
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- PublisherBlack Swan
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 055299507X
- ISBN 13 9780552995078
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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